From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: 'Enda' <enda_k2@yahoo.com>; help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Sent: Monday, July 9, 2012 9:23 PM
Subject: RE: How to turn off font-lock-mode with a local variable
> The following when at the end of a file does not turn off
> font-lock-mode when visiting a file:
>
> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; eval: (lisp-mode)
> ;; eval: (font-lock-mode -1)
> ;; End:
>
> How do I turn off font-lock-mode per file then?
>
> This doesn't work either (even though I do not want to turn
> off font-lock globally, just for the file that I am visiting):
>
> ;; Local Variables:
> ;; eval: (lisp-mode)
> ;; eval: (global-font-lock-mode -1)
> ;; End:
See the Emacs manual, node `Font Lock'.